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Show I Beef Cattle Feeding Experiment Will Be Conducted at B. A. C. Because Utah fattens only twenty twen-ty per cent of the beef cattle which axe sold on the markets in this state, an experiment will be conducted con-ducted for the first time at the Branch Agricultural College to determine de-termine the profitableness of fattening fat-tening livestock within the state, it was announced today by John V. Chrlstensen, assistant professor of agriculture at the' college. Safeway Stores, Inc., under the direction of H. S. Archer, district supervisor, have purchased forty head of Hereford heifer calves, weighing from 400 to 425 pounds each to be fattened at the B. A. C. farms for 120 to 150 days, at which time they will be marketed In Utah. The experiment will begin as soon as the barns and corrals are enlarged and improved enough to take care of the stock, and will be a continual project as long as It Is desirable. College students will do the work. Supervising this experiment are Mr. Chris tensen and D. L. Sargent, associate professor of agriculture at the B. A. C; and R. H. Walker, dean of the school of agriculture and director of experiment station, and Harry B. Smith, extension animal ani-mal husbandman, of the experiment experi-ment staff at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College. Feed raised locally will be utilised uti-lised and records will be kept of tlw amount consumed and the wleght of the cattle. At regular Intervals, fanners of Southern Utah will be given Information regardlg the feasibility of fattening livestock. The forty head of heifers will be divided into groups of four; the first group will be given alfalfa and barley; the second, alfalfa, barley, and corn silage; the third, alfalfa, barley, and sugar beet molasses; and the fourth, alfalfa, barley, corn slleage, and sugar beet molasses. All the calves will be given salt and bone meal. |